ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,244, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CesiumAstro Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Power-efficient antenna array control architecture" was invented by Tanim Taher (Round Rock, Texas), Thomas Magesacher (Austin, Texas) and James Wesley McCoy (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a digital beamformer (DBF) circuit coupled to N antenna elements of an analog front end. The DBF circuit may include a plurality of digital pre-distortion (DPD) blocks and a controller. Each DPD block may correspond to a transmission path that includes one of the N antenna elements. The controller may be configured to determine one or mor...